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Patent GB-1053534-A (GB)
IPC: D03D45/20
Abstract: 1,053,534. Automatic bobbin changing loom. HUTCHINSON, HOLLINGWORTH & CO. Ltd. Jan. 12, 1965 [Oct. 12, 1963], No. 40348/ 63. Heading DIE. In a loom having change boxes at both ends, the box at the bobbin-changing end has its cells disposed in an arc so that replenishment can be effected in any cell. The box is operated from the change box motion through a Geneva motion. The dobby is put out of action during replenishment as described in Specification 1053533 so that the bobbin can be changed on one beat up and the box man change on the next. Shuttle stop motion. To allow the box to oscillate without fouling the stop motion finger resting against the shuttle swell of the active cell, the finger is swung forward to disengage it from the swell and laterally to move it beyond the end of the box; the movements are effected by two fixed cam tracks on which follower mounted on the slay run as the slay moves backwards and forwards. The finger is also moved clear to relieve the swell pressure for picking.
Patent GB-1054027-A (GB)
IPC: C08F10/00
Abstract: 1,054,027. Polymerizing ethylene. BADISCHE ANILIN- & SODA-FABRIK A.G. Oct. 17, 1963 [Oct. 27, 1962], No. 41003/63. Heading C3P. Polyethylene of density from 0À92 to 0À93 and melt index from 0À1 to 25 g./10 minutes is prepared by passing ethylene containing 5 x 10<SP>-4</SP> to 25 x 10<SP>-4</SP> wt. per cent of oxygen and 0À5 to 15 wt. per cent of methanol into a tubular reactor at a pressure of more than 1800 atmospheres and a temperature between 170‹ and 300‹ C. Reaction ingredients also may be introduced at one or more points along the reactor. The polymer obtained finds application as transparent sheet or film.
Patent GB-1054296-A (GB)
IPC: H02K1/18
Abstract: 1,054,296. Dynamo-electric machines. SIEMENS-SCHUCKERTWERKE A.G. Sept. 11, 1964 [Sept. 24. 1963]. No. 37367/64. Heading H2A. The stator 2 of a vertical-shaft machine is secured within its concrete housing 4 by a zig-zag array of stays 6. These stays may all be oblique, as shown, or alternately oblique and radial. The anchors 7 may be cast into the concrete, as shown, or resiliently. bolted through, Fig. 4 (not shown). Cooling air passes between the housing and the stator and is recooled at 18.
Patent GB-1084361-A (GB)
IPC: G21C7/22
Abstract: 1,084,361. Controlling reactors. UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY. Aug. 16, 1965 [Sept. 21, 1964], No. 38485/64. Heading G6C. In a nuclear reactor safety system, under emergency conditions, boric acid is urged into containers within the core. Helium gas within each container is compressed by incoming acid and functions as a shock absorber. The helium gas is displaced from the container, by the acid, into an external pressure vessel through a pre-set orifice until the pressures in the vessel end container balance. The arrangement is applied to a heavy-water moderated reactor having light water neutron shieldtanks. The moderator calandria' tank is penetrated by tubes forming the boric acid containers. (Following shut-down, the system is flushed with demineralized water. This prevents corrosion by lithium Hydroxide formed from the irradiation of B10 in the acid.
Patent GB-1095541-A (GB)
IPC: E05C1/16
Abstract: 1,095,541. Latch bolts. MICRO & PRECISION MOULDINGS (CHELTENHAM) Ltd. Jan. 29, 1965 [Jan. 31, 1964], No. 4154/64. Heading E2A. A door latch comprises a slam bolt 4 slidable in a housing and formed with spaced limbs 13 between which in use an operating shaft passes and a release element 10 which is turned by the shaft and engages one of the limbs for latch release, the housing being provided with a suitable guide 23 for the bolt limb engaged by the release element to prevent undue inward flexing of that limb during releasing movement of the bolt. In the construction shown the guide 23 is a rib and two ribs 23 are provided for preventing the inward flexing of both bolt limbs and the release element is engaged with bolt limbs. The housing is of a generally tubular shape with an and fixing flange 2 so that it can be morticed into a door and the bolt is urged by a spring 5 to a position in which it projects from the housing for latching engagement with a keeper plate 6. The bolt 4 has an elongated cut-out aperture 12 which provides the two bolt limbs 13 and which contains a spring 5 which acts between the end wall of the aperture adjacent the bolt head and an abutment (not shown) moulded in the housing. The limbs 13 are interconnected by an end wall 14 of the aperture at the inner end of the bolt and this end wall has two rectangular grooves which are engaged by the guide ribs 23. The release element has a projection 15 and both bolt limbs 13 have cut-outs 16 in the limbs 13 the inner end of either of which is engaged with the spigots to withdraw the bolt. The housing consists of a major portion 8 moulded integrally with the fixing flange 2 and a minor portion (not shown) having a projection which engages in a lip-like manner with the major portion 8; the major portion 8 also has a cylindrical projection 26 at the inner end and this is embraced by the limbs of a yoke-like clip 27 moulded integrally with the minor portion 9 to retain the two portions in engagement. The whole of the latch except for the spring 5 is moulded from nylon. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 1,014,174.
Patent GB-1110426-A (GB)
Abstract: 1,110,426. Selective signalling. MONSANTO CO., 10 June, 1966 [10 June, 1965], No. 26090/66. Heading G4H. Application of information to a display is prevented by a transistor while the information is changing. The duration-significant output 84 of an analogue-to-time voltage converter gates clock pulses from a generator 88 at 82 to a counter 80 and disables a transistorized code converter 50. When the output 84 has ceased, the counter reading, decoded at 78, can actuate the code converter 50 to energize one cathode of a number-indicating tube.
Patent GB-1225267-A (GB)
IPC: F16H61/688
Filed: 1968-03-03
Abstract: 1,225,267. Change-speed gear. ROBERT BOSCH G.m.b.H. 3 March, 1968 [3 March, 1967], No. 10009/68. Heading F2D. A change-speed gear arrangement wherein torque is interrupted during shift is such as to allow simple modification to a change-speed gear arrangement wherein torque is maintained during shift. The torque-interrupted arrangement, Fig. 1, comprises a single intermediate shaft 22 friction clutchable at K, to an engine driven input shaft 3, for the usual manual shift torque interruption, gears 7, 23 fast on the shaft 22 and meshing gears 15, 24 free on and selectively clutchable at S1, S3 to a countershaft 14, and gears 26, 18 fast on the countershaft and meshing gears 25, 12 which are respectively free on the shaft 22 and fast on an output shaft 11 and are selectively clutchable at S2, S4 to the shaft 22. 1st-4th gears are respectively by engagement of clutches S1, S3, S2, S4. Reverse is by axially sliding an idler 21 into mesh with a gear 8 fast on the shaft 22 and a gear 20 formed on an S1, S3 clutch sleeve 19. The clutches S1-S4 are synchronized positive clutches. The torque-maintained modification, Fig. 3, comprises two nested intermediate shafts 5, 6 selectively friction clutchable at K1, K2 to the input shaft 3. Gears 7, 9 fast on the shaft 5 mesh gears 15, 16 free on, and selectively clutchable at S1, S3, to the countershaft 14. Gears 17, 18 fast on the countershaft 14 mesh gears 10, 12 which are respectively free on the shaft 6 and fast on the output shaft 11 and are selectively clutchable at S2, S4 to the shaft 6. The Reverse driving gear 8 is fast on the shaft 5. The clutches K1, K2 (which may be electromagnetically operated) are alternately engaged and disengaged at each shift, their engagement overlapping so that torque is not interrupted. 1st- 4th gears are respectively by engagement of clutches K1, S1; K2, S2; K1, S3; and K2, S4. Reverse is by engagement of clutch K1 and the idler 26.
Patent GB-1225706-A (GB)
IPC: D03D51/34
Filed: 1969-02-21
Abstract: 1,225,706. Weft stop motions. GEORG FISCHER A.G. BRUGG. 21 Feb., 1969 [28 Feb., 1968], No. 9602/69. Heading D1E. A longitudinally movable weft feeler 20 mounted on the sley is woven into the fabric 8 in front of the last pick 7 and, on retraction of the sley, tilts to open contacts to ensure loom operation. Absence of the last pick 7 causes the circuit to remain closed and the loom to stop. Electrical interrupter circuits are described.
Patent GB-1226131-A (GB)
IPC: C10G45/64
Filed: 1968-01-11
Abstract: 1,226,131. Making fuel oils. BRITISH PETROLEUM CO. Ltd. 13 Dec., 1968 [11 Jan., 1968], No. 1655/68. Heading C5E. A fuel oil is made by distilling an atmospheric residue which contains at least 5 wt. per cent wax and has an I.B.P. in the range 300‹ to 370‹ C., under vacuum to give a wax distillate having an I.B.P. in the range 300‹ to 370‹ C., and an F.B.P. in the range 500‹ to 600‹ C. and a residue, selectively dewaxing the distillate to reduce the wax content by at least 4 wt. per cent, and blending at least a portion of the dewaxed distillate with at least a portion of the vacuum residue. Dewaxing may be by solvent extraction or by urea adduction, but is preferably done using a mordenite catalyst, e.g. as described in Specifications 1,088,933 and 1,134,014. The fuel oil may be blended with untreated atmospheric or vacuum residues, or with a gas oil.
Patent GB-1227033-A (GB)
IPC: F17C3/04
Filed: 1968-06-19
Abstract: 1,227,033. Liquefied gas storage containers. GAZ DE FRANCE, and GAZ-TRANSPORT 19 June, 1968 [21 June, 1967], No. 29295/68. Heading F4P. Pre-stressed cables located within a concrete skirt 31, Fig. 1, of an L.N.G. container having a flat concrete base 32, a domed concrete roof 33 and a heat insulating lining 34, 35 for said skirt and base and which is itself lined internally by a fluid tight barrier layer 61, Fig. 3, are made of cryogenic steel of the austenitic type and are such that the yield strength at the low temperature of the stored gas is greater than the total stress to which each cable is subjected by hydrostatic force exerted by the L.N.G. and by thermal stress occasioned by rupture of the barrier and flooding of the insulation layers 34, 35. The latter are formed by a plurality of boxed frames 51, 47, 48, Fig. 7, having apertured cells filled with perlite through which inert gas may circulate. Each box frame 51 is secured to the concrete skirt by steel rods 52 embedded therein; the wedge-shaped space 59 between adjacent frames being filled with rock wool. The inner face of each side frame 51 is covered by a nickel steel plate e.g. 61, Fig. 5, having an inwardly extending edge flange 63 which is welded to a steel strip 65 secured between adjacent frames 51 and extending the height of the skirt. The strip 65 is also welded to the edge flange 64 of the plate 62 of the adjacent frame thus forming the barrier layer. The frame 47 on the base 32 are similarly lined with steel plates welded together at their edges forming a barrier 79, Fig. 10, which is connected to the vertical barrier 78 by an expansion joint formed by a corrugation 89, L-sectioned bars 97 and brackets 92 fixed by tubes 91 to the concrete skirt 31. The bottom of skirt 31 carries an annular steel plate 82 having a corrugated portion 84 and which is slidably supported on an annular steel plate 80 secured to the bed 32; and the inner periphery of the two plates 80, 82 being welded together. The concrete roof 33 is separated from the liquid charge by a ceiling 40, Fig. 15, suspended by cables 39 and formed of a framework of crossed beams on which are laid bags of perlite 43. Filling and emptying ducts 104, 105, Fig. 11, extend through the concrete base 32 to a conduit 204 and a valve 122, and at the upper inner end of each duct 104, 105 is a weighted closure member 131, 125 suspended by cables 130, 126 whereby the ducts can be closed independently of the valve 122. The upper end of the pervious insulation layer 34 is normally left open but may be closed by a packing 141 when it is desired to evacuate or pressurize the cellular insulation to detect leaks in the barrier.
Patent GB-1228105-A (GB)
IPC: A63H33/08
Filed: 1969-05-20
Abstract: 1,228,105. Take-apart toy. S. A. TARRSON. 20 May, 1969 [28 March, 1969], No. 25549/69. Heading A6S. A take-apart toy in the form of a boat is made up of a plurality of separate individual toys which may be used for sand moulding, and comprises (i) a pail 10 in the form of a ship's hull, (ii) a shovel 16 supported by and adapted to fit within the pail, (iii) a sieve 21, which when inverted embraces the sides of the hull and simulates a deck plate, (iv) a rake 26 the handle of which, when inverted, passes through a hole 25 in the deck plate and forms the mast of the boat, and (v) a leveller or paddle 29, which is adapted to fit on the rake and simulates a sail. The various components are preferably made of durable, non-toxic, plastics material of sufficient buoyancy to permit floating of the boat in water.
Patent GB-1228599-A (GB)
IPC: H05K3/22
Filed: 1968-06-20
Abstract: 1,228,599. Printed circuits. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. 20 June, 1968 [6 July, 1967], No. 29363/68. Heading H1R. [Also in Division H2] In the manufacture of a printed circuit, conductive blocks of low melting point metal having a surface tension such that when the metal is heated it has a tendency to form into a globule are incorporated with the circuit lines as sections thereof whereby the circuit lines can be selectively opened or closed by heating of the metal blocks. In the embodiment of Figs. 6, 7 a glass fibre cloth impregnated with epoxy resin substrate 11 laminated with a metal foil sheet is coated with a photoresist and exposed to light through a negative mask of the desired metal blocks. After washing and etching the metal foil is provided with a plurality of rectangular recesses and a tin-lead solder is flowed over the board and exposed photoresist so that it collects in oblong globules in each etched area, Figs. 3, 4 (not shown). Thereafter the board is pressed by a heated platen to form solder slugs 17, 18, 19. The exposed photo-resist is removed and a new coating applied. After exposure to light through a negative mask and etching circuit lines 21 to 26 are left arranged as shown. The circuit shown in Fig. 6 may be changed to that shown in Fig. 7 by applying localized heat from an electron or laser beam to any one or all of the solder slugs 17, 18, 19. When the slug 17 reaches its molten state it forms a globule because of its high inherent surface tension and because the substrate 11 is not wetted by the solder the slug 17 breaks up into globules 17a, 17b thereby breaking the circuit. Slugs 18, 19 each form a single large globule on heating thereby completing the circuits as shown;
Patent GB-1231117-A (GB)
IPC: C09K8/584
Filed: 1969-04-11
Abstract: 1,231,117. Wells. MARATHON OIL CO. 11 April, 1969, No. 18624/69. Heading E1F. An oil-external, micellar dispersion is injected into a well bore in sufficient amounts to displace all the water from the pore space adjacent to the well bore to a radius of 3-20 feet. The dispersion is then displaced outwards by a hydrocarbon and the well is allowed to produce. Specifications 1,231,118, 1,231,119 and 1,231,120 are referred to.
Patent GB-1232314-A (GB)
IPC: B29C43/00
Filed: 1968-09-20
Abstract: 1,232,314. Moulding seals. FORD MOTOR CO. Ltd. 20 Sept., 1968 [29 Sept., 1967], No. 44790/68. Heading B5A. [Also in Division F2] In the moulding of an annular shaft seal comprising an operative seal facing of a material e.g. silicone or fluorosilicone rubber, having superior properties to a seal body material e.g. an epichlorohydrin or polyacrylate resin, or a butadiene, chloroprene, nitrile-butadiene, nitrilechloroprene or styrene butadiene rubber, a disc blank 30 of the body material and a surrounding annular blank 32 of the facing material are placed between the top of the core 10 and die 16 of a mould assembly which has been heated e.g. to 300 F., and in which is located the metal casing 28 of the seal. In the Fig. 2 embodiment, the upper die 16 is then moved towards the core 10 and a boss 26 thereon initially contacts the blank 30 to displace material thereof, enclosed by material of the blank 32, over the lip 29 of the core 10. Continued closing of the die 16 until a bottom ridge 26 thereon contacts the casing 28 produces a seal, Fig. 3 (not shown), the interior and exterior vertically extending surfaces whereof comprise the facing material enclosing the body material. A garter spring is subsequently assembled within a groove defined by a projection (24), Fig. 1 (not shown), of die 16. Alternatively, Figs. 4-6 (not shown), a seal comprising only the interior vertically extending surface thereof of facing material may similarly be moulded by covering both a first body disc blank and the surrounding annular blank of facing material with a further disc blank of a body material; where each of these blanks is of different material the interior and exterior vertically extending surfaces of the seal respectively comprise material of the annular blank and of the further disc blank encasing a body of the first disc blank. To improve the bonding of the body and facing materials, each blank thereof may include a proportion of the material of the other. The disc and outer annular blank may be cut from a composite extrusion thereof. Alternatively, the seal may be moulded in an inverted mould assembly wherein the blanks are located within the lower die member 16, the boss 26 being located on the core 10 or in the die 16.
Patent GB-1232986-A (GB)
IPC: H01P1/26
Filed: 1967-07-27
Abstract: 1,232,986. Absorbing power from radiofrequency sources; dissipating heat from closed fluid circuits. MARCONI CO. Ltd. 20 June, 1968 [27 July, 1967], No. 34654/67. Heading F4U. In a load 1, power from a high power radio transmitter is absorbed by water from a pump 2 which maintains a pressure at the load sufficient to prevent steam formation. Heated water from the load passes through a flow restrictor 8 on the low pressure side of which steam is formed. The steam is condensed at 10 and together with unevaporated water passes to a tank 4 for recirculation. The restrictor 8 may be manually adjustable or may be responsive to pressure or temperature. The load 1 comprises a conductor in the form of a rod (21) of stepped cross-section, Fig. 2 (not shown), which is contacted and surrounded by insulation (18) of frusto-conical form. The water is passed through a space between the insulation and a surrounding copper jacket.
Patent GB-1238702-A (GB)
IPC: G03G13/26
Filed: 1968-09-25
Abstract: 1,238,702. Plasma apparatus. KALLE A.G. 25 Sept., 1968 [28 Sept., 1967], No. 5801/71. Divided out of 1,238,701. Heading H5H. [Also in Division C7] A metal, e.g. steel or aluminium, foil 3 for use as a printing plate is cleaned and roughened by a plasma jet 5, whilst it is cooled, e.g. by coolant in a container 6 or by a cooled support. The plasma may be moved transversely of the foil. The foil 3 passes over contact rollers 2, 7, and beneath a series of tungsten electrodes 4, a series of arcs 5 being struck between electrodes 4 and the foil 3 in a protective argon atmosphere. Current is supplied through the rollers 2, 7, to the web or via the cooling medium in container 6, when this medium is conductive.
Patent GB-1238768-A (GB)
IPC: B23Q11/00
Filed: 1969-05-22
Abstract: 1,238,768. Reciprocating conveyers. KOBO KOHLER & BOVENKAMP G.m.b.H. 22 May, 1969 [29 Aug., 1968], No. 26238/69. Heading B8A. A reciprocating conveyer for material in chip form comprises guide blocks 4 slidably supported on a rail 3 and connected together by pivoted straps 8. Alternate straps support pivoted pushes 10 having tips 10<SP>1</SP> extending in the conveying direction and each block 4 is provided with lateral plates 19 which, at the ends remote from the blocks, are bridged by members 20. Stops 14 for the pushers 10 also prevent the space beneath the stops becoming clogged with material being conveyed.
Patent GB-1239720-A (GB)
IPC: C09K23/00
Filed: 1970-04-01
Abstract: 1,239,720. Ring sulphonated benzene alkyl sulphates. CONTINENTAL OIL CO. 1 April, 1970 [28 May, 1969], No. 15469/70. Heading C2C. [Also in Division C5] The invention comprises compounds of the formula wherein B represents a SO 3 M group or a C 1 -C 30  branched or straight-chain alkyl group, C represents a H atom when B represents a SO 3 M group, or a SO 3 M group when B represents a branched or straight-chain alkyl group; A represents a C 4 -C 30  straight-chain alkyl group with the phenyl substituent situated at or near the end of the carbon chain remote from the sulphate group when B represents a branched or straight-chain alkyl group, or a C 8 -C 30  straight-chain alkyl group with the phenyl substituent situated at or near the end of the carbon chain remote from the sulphate group when B represents a SO 3 M group, with the proviso that when B represents a branched or straight-chain alkyl group, the total number of carbon atoms in A and B is at least 8; and M represents Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ca or Mg, or a substituted or unsubstituted ammonium radical. They may be obtained by reacting a compound of the formula wherein D represents a C 1 -C 30  branched- or straight-chain alkyl group, when A represents a C 4 -C 30  straight-chain alkyl group, provided that the total number of carbon atoms in A and D is at least 8; or D represents a H atom when A represents a C 8 -C 30  straight-chain alkyl group; with a sulphonating/sulphating agent and converting the compound produced into the required salt. Examples are given for the preparation of the compounds. They are useful in detergent compositions. Compounds of Formula II may be obtained by reduction of the corresponding carboxylic acid using hydrogen and perrhenic acid. Examples are given in which phenyl - n - undecanol-1 and phenyloctadecyl alcohol are prepared.
Patent GB-1251992-A (GB)
IPC: B65H29/00
Filed: 1968-08-23
Abstract: 1,251,992. Stacking apparatus; conveyers; delivering sheets. KOPPERS CO. Inc. 23 Aug., 1968 [11 Sept., 1967], No. 33671/69. Divided out of 1,251,991. Headings B8A, B8C and B8R. The description of the present application is the same as that of Specification 1,251,991 but the claims differ. The claims of the present application relate to an apparatus for inverting alternate ones of a series of stacks of paperboard blanks.
Patent GB-1252122-A (GB)
IPC: F02C9/26
Filed: 1967-08-17
Abstract: 1,252,122. Gas turbine engine fuel systems. JOSEPH LUCAS (INDUSTRIES) Ltd. Nov. 15, 1968 [Aug. 17, 1967], No. 37943/67. Heading F1G. Flow of fuel to a gas turbine engine is controlled by a throttle valve comprising a tube 11 which is axially moveable within a fixed sleeve 12 and a moveable sleeve 12a to vary the size of one or more throttling apertures 11a, the movement being effected by capsule 17 subjected externally within a chamber 26, 25 to an air-pressure derived from the engine compressor and connected to the tube 11 by means of levers 18 pivoted at 19, a link 20, lever 21 and an H-shaped member 22. The member 22 comprises upper limbs pivotally connected to a collar 23 secured to the tube 11, lower limbs pivotally mounted on trunnions 24, and a bridge piece to which the lever 21 is secured. The interior of the capsule 17 is either evacuated or subjected to a further air-pressure derived from the engine. The chamber 16 surrounding the tube 11 and containing liquid fuel which has leaked from a cavity 13 past a seal 14 is isolated from the chamber 25, 26 containing air under pressure by means of a bellows 28 surrounding the lever 21 and secured at one end to a ring 29 and at the other end to a ring 27 clamped between the lever and the member 22.
Patent GB-1257177-A (GB)
IPC: C02F5/12
Filed: 1968-12-23
Abstract: 1,257,177. Cleaning metals. KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES Ltd. Dec. 23, 1968 [Dec. 27, 1967], No.61102/68. Heading C7E. Copper containing scale is removed from e.g. boilers using an acid, e.g. hydrochloric, sulphuric, phosphoric or sulphamic, thiourea or a derivative thereof, e.g. alkyl and phenyl derivatives, and hydrazine or a compound thereof e.g. the hydrate, hydrochloride, sulphate, phosphate, carbonate, maleate or citrate. An inhibitor, e.g. hexamethylenetetramine or thiocyanate may be added.